Improvement in bee-hives



J. McDONALD.-

Bee Hive.

Patented June 23, 1868.

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LettersPatent No. 79,243, dated June 23,1868,

IMPROVEMENT IN BEE-HIVES.

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.-'r 0 ALL WHOM IT AY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JACOB McDONAiD; of Buffalo, Guernsey county, Ohio,ha;ve invented new and useful Improvements in Bee-Hives; and I do hereby declare the following to be a. full and exact description f the same, reference being had to the drawings that accompany and form apart of these-specifications, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of,my double hive, ready for use, with'one window shown.

Figure 2 isa view of my hive, with the two sections C C separated, and arranged sid e by side, for dividing or colonizing my bees, to prevent swarming. i

Figure 3 is a vertical bi-sectional viewof my doume hive, cut on the line a b of fig. 1.

The object of my invention is toprovide for colonizing or dividing mybees in spring {and prevent swarm; ing and loss of bees. i

' The nature of my invention consists in markinga double hive, of two equal-parts, O G, as shown in fig. 1. The sections are exnctly alike, each being of suflieient capacity to accomuiodate a colony, and each a perfect hive of itself, as shown in fig.,2, and united in a. double hive, as shown in figs;i1 and 3. v i i I make an alighting and guiding-boarifl, with side-strips g g, to cnuseiny hens to leave anti-enter my hire from two sides only; and I place my hive so they will be to the east and west.

My hive stands on the strips 9g, as shown in figs. 1 and 2, so that 'the entrances are of equal size and amply large. I

To divide or coloniz'e my bees, I take the hive, when signs of swarming are shown, move it towards one end of my alighting-board, A, and remove the top section, and place it on the alighting-hozird by 'the'side of the bottom section, and put the little boardt'between thetwo sections, to cut oflcommliniention betweenthem.

This I do at noon, when'mostof the workers ore absent. I also'place a cap on hottoin' section, and thus have two hives side by side, as shown in fig. 2.

When the workers return, those going from one side in the morning will enter onescction, while those goin'gi from the other side will enter the other section, or hiv'e, as it now is, and I have two coloni e f 11 sepmmfd and divided, and with no trouble or disturbance to the bees. v

In a few days, when they need more room, I raise the two sections; and place new and empty/ones beneath them, and have two double hives whereI had one, zi.nd thus preventswarming, which-is the great enddesired.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is y The guiding-board A, with side-stripsgg, the two sections 0 Q, and crossb oa' rd a', .for'the use and purposeas specified and herein set forth. v-

y JACOB Me'DONALD. Witnesses:

D. C. Comer, CHAS. H. PooLn. 

